A Pizza & Beer Flight & A Year Of Pizza Holidays

Enjoy different beers with your pizza (photo © Delancey Hollywood [permanently closed]).   Why don’t all pizza restaurants offer a beer tasting flight? Delancey Hollywood has it right: a tasting of four different beers to enjoy with your pizza. If you can’t make it to Hollywood, create the concept at home. How about debuting it…
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FOOD FUN: Beer Menorah

For 18 years, the Shmaltz Brewing Company has been handcrafting HE’BREW, classic beers with culturally-relevant names (certified kosher, of course, by KSA). Chanukah begins tonight, so take a look! THE CHOSEN BEERS The brewery currently makes: Barrel Aged Funky Jewbellation Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. Chanukah Beer David’s Slingshot Death Of A Contract Brewer Genesis Dry Hopped…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Lager Day

Samuel Adams’ Winter Lager is available on tap, in bottles and cans. Photo courtesy Samuel Adams.   December 10th is National Lager Day. If you’re like most, you people can’t articulate the difference between lager and ale. So we’ll start with five fun lager facts from our friends at Samuel Adams, and then go on…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pumpkin Beer & Pumpkin Ale

Even George Washington was a fan of pumpkin beer. He brewed his own, of course. Photo courtesy CraftBeer.com.   Thanks to Julia Herz of CraftBeer.com for today’s tip: Pick up some pumpkin beer or ale. In fact, have a pumpkin beer tasting for Halloween (with or without costumes), and bring it instead of wine to…
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FOOD 101: What Are Hops?

September 28th is Drink Beer Day. Only a few ingredients are needed to make beer; typically, barley malt, unmalted grain, hops, yeast and water. We were explaining to a friend that our favorite beers are heavily hopped IPAs. “What exactly are hops?” he asked. We turned to Samuel Adams, the pioneering craft beer brewer, and…
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